The main advantage of official peripherals and cables is exactly what you eluded to in your first sentence. Many folks don't realize the variation in quality between good cables and crap cables, nor do they realize that some monitor issues are due to crap cables. It is difficult to determine the quality of a cable, from an online description, which compounds the issue.Why do we need an official anything? Computer parts are commodities. Everything works with everything else, only the quality varies.
The only thing that needs to be official is the power supply, because nobody else makes a 5V/5A variant. But even then, that's only needed if your total current draw is high. A 5V/3A PSU is sufficient.
The Pi is a generic Unix box. All of the "official" accessories are just window dressing. They look nice, and are guaranteed to work, but any standard peripheral will also work (which is kind of the point).
Any standard, reasonable quality, cable will work. I have seen and experienced many cables that do not. Recently, was very annoyed when I discovered that my IT supplied DP cables were the cause of all my dock station issues, since my esteemed IT department assured me that they used "lots of them" and that they could not be the issue. Better quality replacement cables sorted the issue.
Having an easy to buy cable of known quality eliminates one source of problems. They are even reasonably priced to boot. Of course that does not prevent you from using other cables. Given that, I see it as a win-win.
Statistics: Posted by bjtheone — Fri Jul 19, 2024 2:42 pm